Keir Starmer
Block votes and nutters
There was a time when the Labour conference really mattered, before it became a stage-managed platform for social media hits and soundbites
Keir’s woman problem
Labour’s dishonest and weak handling of “the trans issue” hardly instils confidence that it will stand firm against sex denial extremists
Sunak Mirror
Charlie Brooker couldn’t imagine anything so bleak as the Conservatives in 2023
Keir Starmer should apologise to women
It will be hard to restore trust after years of denigration
Starmer’s TRA test
What Keir Starmer could learn from Stonewall’s cowardice
Labour owes women actual feminism
Starmer should oppose the two child benefit cap
Supine Sunak is a flop
How can anyone have faith in British politicians?
The “on behalf of ” Labour Party
It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?
Enter Oliver “The Danger” Dowden
There’s a new hardman next to Rishi Sunak
Causing a stink
There’s a lot of shit in the water
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties